Source: TV Guide, Western Illinois Edition
Quad Cities
4 WHBF-TV (CBS)
6 WOC-TV (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD-TV (ABC)
Quincy
7 KHQA-TV (CBS)
10 WGEM-TV (NBC) (also secondary ABC, but not listed as such)
Springfield
20 WICS-TV (NBC) (now ABC)
Peoria
19 WRAU-TV (ABC) (now WHOI)
25 WEEK-TV (NBC)
31 WMBD-TV (CBS)
47 WTVP-TV (PBS)
Chicago
2 WBBM-TV (CBS) (12 Mid. to 5 A.M. only)
9 WGN-TV (Ind.) (now CW)
44 WSNS-TV (Ind.) (now Telemundo)
Iowa City
12 KIIN-TV (PBS) (part of Iowa Public Television)
Kirksville (Mo.)-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)
For programs on 71 LaSalle-Peru, see 31
All programs in color except those designated by (BW)
(the Chicago and Iowa City stations were designated as out-of-market/cable stations and were denoted with combination black-and-white bullets)
Morning
5:55
9 Top o’ the Morning
6:00
4-25 PTL Club
7 Monday Morning (Bob Schieffer)
19-20 700 Club
6:20
31 Garden Talk
6:25
3-10 Country Day
9 News
31 Loving Free
6:30
8 Country Day
9 Cartoons
31 Bullwinkle
6:45
12 A.M. Weather
6:55
3 American Trail
6 Today in Agriculture
10 News
7:00
3-8-19 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4-31 Monday Morning (Bob Schieffer)
6-10-20-25 Today (Tom Brokaw)
7 Farm Report (Chuck Kuppler)
9 Ray Rayner
12 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:15
7 Studio 7
7:30
7 Romper Room
12 Grow Older/Feel Younger
7:45
12 A.M. Weather
8:00
4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo (Guest: Mary Kay Place)
12 Sesame Street
8:30
9 Family Affair
9:00
3 PTL Club (Guest: author Peter Jenkins) (2 hrs.)
4-7-31 All in the Family
6 Mike Douglas
8-19 Phil Donahue (probably different episodes; both stations were listed separately with no details)
9 Movie: “Peace Is Our Profession” (Made for TV; 1971)
10-25 Card Sharks
12 Mister Rogers
20 I Love Lucy (BW)
47 Sesame Street
9:30
4 Andy Griffith
7-31 Whew!
10-20-25 All Star Secrets
12 Electric Company
44 Mundo Hispano
9:55
7-31 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
10:00
4-7-31 Price Is Right
6-10-25 High Rollers
8 Romper Room
12 Previn and the Pittsburgh
19 Laverne & Shirley
20 Dating Game
47 Electric Company
10:30
6-10-20-25 Wheel of Fortune
8-19 Family Feud
44 700 Club
11:00
3-8-19 $20,000 Pyramid
4 I Love Lucy (BW)
6-10-20-25 Password
7-31 Young and the Restless
9 Phil Donahue
12 Over Easy (Hugh Downs)
11:30
3-8-19 Ryan’s Hope
4-7-31 Search for Tomorrow
6-10-20-25 Hollywood Squares
12 Nova
Afternoon
12:00
3-7-31 News
4 Young and the Restless (delay from 11 A.M.)
6 High School Bowl: Illinois team champions vs. Iowa team champions (local news normally airs here)
8-19 All My Children
9 Bozo’s Circus
10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
12:10
3 Butcher (Merle Ellis)
12:15
3 Town and Country Forum
7 Datebook
12:30
3 Family Feud (delay from 10:30 A.M.)
4-7-31 As the World Turns
6 Days of Our Lives
12 Basically Baseball
44 I Love Lucy (BW)
1:00
3-8-19 One Life to Live
9 Bewitched
10-20-25 Doctors
12 Dick Cavett (Guest: author Elizabeth Hardwick)
44 Baseball Warm-Up
1:15
44 Baseball: Cleveland Indians at Chicago White Sox (Live)
1:30
4-7-31 Guiding Light
6 Doctors
9 Love, American Style
10-20-25 Another World
12 Romagnolis’ Table
2:00
3-8-19 General Hospital
6 Another World
9 Love, American Style
12-47 Lilias, Yoga and You
2:30
4-7-31 M*A*S*H
9 Family Affair
12 Stitchery
47 Villa Alegre
3:00
3 Edge of Night
4 Superman
7 Love of Life
8 Dating Game
9 Flintstones
10 Family Feud (from ABC; delay from 10:30 A.M.)
12 Upstairs, Downstairs
19 Gunsmoke
20 Tennessee Tuxedo
25 Captain Jinks
31 Dinah!
47 Sesame Street
3:30
3-10 All My Children (delay from 12 P.M.)
4 Bugs Bunny and Friends
6 Bewitched (BW)
7 Cliffwood Avenue Kids
8 Merv Griffin
9-20 Gilligan’s Island (BW) (different episodes)
4:00
4-25 Gilligan’s Island (different episodes)
6 Brady Bunch
7 Brady Kids
9 Superman
12 Sesame Street
19 Flintstones
20 Partridge Family
47 Mister Rogers
4:15
44 Beatles
4:30
3 Gunsmoke
4 Gunsmoke (BW)
6 Emergency One!
7 Bewitched
9 I Dream of Jeannie
10 Cub Reporter (“Gilligan’s Island” normally airs here)
19 Hogan’s Heroes
20 Brady Bunch
25 Partridge Family
31 Big Valley
44 Wacky Races
47 Electric Company
5:00
7 Brady Bunch
8 News
9 Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia Phillies (Live)
10 Hogan’s Heroes
12 Mister Rogers
19 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
20 Batman
25 Real McCoys
44 Maverick (BW)
47 Studio See
5:25
7 Weather
5:30
3-8 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
12 Electric Company
19 News
47 Over Easy (Hugh Downs)
Evening
6:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-20-25-31 News
12 Over Easy (Hugh Downs)
19 Carol Burnett and Friends
44 Bonanza
47 Another Voice
6:25
6 Comment
6:30
3 That Nashville Music (Guests: Cal Smith and Johnny Russell)
4-19-20 Newlywed Game
6 Muppet Show (Guest: Danny Kaye)
7 Wild Kingdom
8 Carol Burnett and Friends
10 My Three Sons
12 Mary Jane Odell
25 Joker’s Wild
31 Odd Couple
47 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00
3-8-19 Salvage-1
4-7-31 Wonder Woman
6-10-20-25 Little House on the Prairie
12 Bill Moyers’ Journal
44 Hazel
47 Monday Night! (Guest: Kenneth Mason)
7:30
44 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8:00
3-8-19 ABC Theatre: “The House on Garibaldi Street”
4 The Rebels (Part 1 of a 4-hr. syndicated miniseries)
6-10-20-25 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: “The Best Place to Be,” Conclusion (Made for TV; 1979)
7-31 M*A*S*H
9 1979 Cannes Film Festival Awards
12 David Susskind
44 700 Club
47 Prime of Miss Jane Brody (Part 4)
8:30
7-31 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00
7-31 Lou Grant
12 Cousteau Odyssey
47 Evening at Pops (Arthur Fiedler celebrates his 50th year as conductor of the Boston Pops)
9:30
44 Dimension ‘79
10:00
3-4-6-7-8-9-10-19-20-25-31 News
12 Dick Cavett (Guest: Lukas Foss)
44 Wanted: Dead or Alive (BW)
10:30
3 Police Story
4 Bionic Woman
6-10-20-25 Johnny Carson (Guest host: David Letterman; guests: Susan Saint James, comic George Miller, and animal mind reader Beatrice Lydecker)
7 Rockford Files
8 Movie: “Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?” (1968)
9 Movie (BW): “Sands of Iwo Jima” (1949)
12 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
19 Dating Game
31 Streets of San Francisco
44 Rookies
11:00
12 Pro Soccer
19 Police Story (one-week delay from 10:30 P.M.)
11:30
4 700 Club
31 Ironside
44 My Favorite Martian
11:40
3 Mary Tyler Moore
7 McMillan & Wife
12:00
6-10-20-25 Tomorrow (Tom Snyder) (Guests: humorist John Powers, Rabbi Bernard Cohen, and electronics-company representative Phil Callihan)
12 Diplomatic Style of Andrew Young
12:10
3 Marcus Welby, M.D.
19 Viewpoint
12:15
8 News
12:30
31 Your World
12:35
31 Loving Free
12:40
9-19 News
1:00
4-10-20-25 News
1:10
9 FBI
1:35
2 News
7 Studio 7
1:50
2 Movie: “The Great Race” (1965)
7 News
2:10
9 New Soupy Sales
4:55
2 Bill Cosby
Quad Cities
4 WHBF-TV (CBS)
6 WOC-TV (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD-TV (ABC)
Quincy
7 KHQA-TV (CBS)
10 WGEM-TV (NBC) (also secondary ABC, but not listed as such)
Springfield
20 WICS-TV (NBC) (now ABC)
Peoria
19 WRAU-TV (ABC) (now WHOI)
25 WEEK-TV (NBC)
31 WMBD-TV (CBS)
47 WTVP-TV (PBS)
Chicago
2 WBBM-TV (CBS) (12 Mid. to 5 A.M. only)
9 WGN-TV (Ind.) (now CW)
44 WSNS-TV (Ind.) (now Telemundo)
Iowa City
12 KIIN-TV (PBS) (part of Iowa Public Television)
Kirksville (Mo.)-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)
For programs on 71 LaSalle-Peru, see 31
All programs in color except those designated by (BW)
(the Chicago and Iowa City stations were designated as out-of-market/cable stations and were denoted with combination black-and-white bullets)
Morning
5:55
9 Top o’ the Morning
6:00
4-25 PTL Club
7 Monday Morning (Bob Schieffer)
19-20 700 Club
6:20
31 Garden Talk
6:25
3-10 Country Day
9 News
31 Loving Free
6:30
8 Country Day
9 Cartoons
31 Bullwinkle
6:45
12 A.M. Weather
6:55
3 American Trail
6 Today in Agriculture
10 News
7:00
3-8-19 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4-31 Monday Morning (Bob Schieffer)
6-10-20-25 Today (Tom Brokaw)
7 Farm Report (Chuck Kuppler)
9 Ray Rayner
12 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:15
7 Studio 7
7:30
7 Romper Room
12 Grow Older/Feel Younger
7:45
12 A.M. Weather
8:00
4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo (Guest: Mary Kay Place)
12 Sesame Street
8:30
9 Family Affair
9:00
3 PTL Club (Guest: author Peter Jenkins) (2 hrs.)
4-7-31 All in the Family
6 Mike Douglas
8-19 Phil Donahue (probably different episodes; both stations were listed separately with no details)
9 Movie: “Peace Is Our Profession” (Made for TV; 1971)
10-25 Card Sharks
12 Mister Rogers
20 I Love Lucy (BW)
47 Sesame Street
9:30
4 Andy Griffith
7-31 Whew!
10-20-25 All Star Secrets
12 Electric Company
44 Mundo Hispano
9:55
7-31 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
10:00
4-7-31 Price Is Right
6-10-25 High Rollers
8 Romper Room
12 Previn and the Pittsburgh
19 Laverne & Shirley
20 Dating Game
47 Electric Company
10:30
6-10-20-25 Wheel of Fortune
8-19 Family Feud
44 700 Club
11:00
3-8-19 $20,000 Pyramid
4 I Love Lucy (BW)
6-10-20-25 Password
7-31 Young and the Restless
9 Phil Donahue
12 Over Easy (Hugh Downs)
11:30
3-8-19 Ryan’s Hope
4-7-31 Search for Tomorrow
6-10-20-25 Hollywood Squares
12 Nova
Afternoon
12:00
3-7-31 News
4 Young and the Restless (delay from 11 A.M.)
6 High School Bowl: Illinois team champions vs. Iowa team champions (local news normally airs here)
8-19 All My Children
9 Bozo’s Circus
10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
12:10
3 Butcher (Merle Ellis)
12:15
3 Town and Country Forum
7 Datebook
12:30
3 Family Feud (delay from 10:30 A.M.)
4-7-31 As the World Turns
6 Days of Our Lives
12 Basically Baseball
44 I Love Lucy (BW)
1:00
3-8-19 One Life to Live
9 Bewitched
10-20-25 Doctors
12 Dick Cavett (Guest: author Elizabeth Hardwick)
44 Baseball Warm-Up
1:15
44 Baseball: Cleveland Indians at Chicago White Sox (Live)
1:30
4-7-31 Guiding Light
6 Doctors
9 Love, American Style
10-20-25 Another World
12 Romagnolis’ Table
2:00
3-8-19 General Hospital
6 Another World
9 Love, American Style
12-47 Lilias, Yoga and You
2:30
4-7-31 M*A*S*H
9 Family Affair
12 Stitchery
47 Villa Alegre
3:00
3 Edge of Night
4 Superman
7 Love of Life
8 Dating Game
9 Flintstones
10 Family Feud (from ABC; delay from 10:30 A.M.)
12 Upstairs, Downstairs
19 Gunsmoke
20 Tennessee Tuxedo
25 Captain Jinks
31 Dinah!
47 Sesame Street
3:30
3-10 All My Children (delay from 12 P.M.)
4 Bugs Bunny and Friends
6 Bewitched (BW)
7 Cliffwood Avenue Kids
8 Merv Griffin
9-20 Gilligan’s Island (BW) (different episodes)
4:00
4-25 Gilligan’s Island (different episodes)
6 Brady Bunch
7 Brady Kids
9 Superman
12 Sesame Street
19 Flintstones
20 Partridge Family
47 Mister Rogers
4:15
44 Beatles
4:30
3 Gunsmoke
4 Gunsmoke (BW)
6 Emergency One!
7 Bewitched
9 I Dream of Jeannie
10 Cub Reporter (“Gilligan’s Island” normally airs here)
19 Hogan’s Heroes
20 Brady Bunch
25 Partridge Family
31 Big Valley
44 Wacky Races
47 Electric Company
5:00
7 Brady Bunch
8 News
9 Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia Phillies (Live)
10 Hogan’s Heroes
12 Mister Rogers
19 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
20 Batman
25 Real McCoys
44 Maverick (BW)
47 Studio See
5:25
7 Weather
5:30
3-8 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
12 Electric Company
19 News
47 Over Easy (Hugh Downs)
Evening
6:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-20-25-31 News
12 Over Easy (Hugh Downs)
19 Carol Burnett and Friends
44 Bonanza
47 Another Voice
6:25
6 Comment
6:30
3 That Nashville Music (Guests: Cal Smith and Johnny Russell)
4-19-20 Newlywed Game
6 Muppet Show (Guest: Danny Kaye)
7 Wild Kingdom
8 Carol Burnett and Friends
10 My Three Sons
12 Mary Jane Odell
25 Joker’s Wild
31 Odd Couple
47 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00
3-8-19 Salvage-1
4-7-31 Wonder Woman
6-10-20-25 Little House on the Prairie
12 Bill Moyers’ Journal
44 Hazel
47 Monday Night! (Guest: Kenneth Mason)
7:30
44 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8:00
3-8-19 ABC Theatre: “The House on Garibaldi Street”
4 The Rebels (Part 1 of a 4-hr. syndicated miniseries)
6-10-20-25 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: “The Best Place to Be,” Conclusion (Made for TV; 1979)
7-31 M*A*S*H
9 1979 Cannes Film Festival Awards
12 David Susskind
44 700 Club
47 Prime of Miss Jane Brody (Part 4)
8:30
7-31 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00
7-31 Lou Grant
12 Cousteau Odyssey
47 Evening at Pops (Arthur Fiedler celebrates his 50th year as conductor of the Boston Pops)
9:30
44 Dimension ‘79
10:00
3-4-6-7-8-9-10-19-20-25-31 News
12 Dick Cavett (Guest: Lukas Foss)
44 Wanted: Dead or Alive (BW)
10:30
3 Police Story
4 Bionic Woman
6-10-20-25 Johnny Carson (Guest host: David Letterman; guests: Susan Saint James, comic George Miller, and animal mind reader Beatrice Lydecker)
7 Rockford Files
8 Movie: “Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?” (1968)
9 Movie (BW): “Sands of Iwo Jima” (1949)
12 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
19 Dating Game
31 Streets of San Francisco
44 Rookies
11:00
12 Pro Soccer
19 Police Story (one-week delay from 10:30 P.M.)
11:30
4 700 Club
31 Ironside
44 My Favorite Martian
11:40
3 Mary Tyler Moore
7 McMillan & Wife
12:00
6-10-20-25 Tomorrow (Tom Snyder) (Guests: humorist John Powers, Rabbi Bernard Cohen, and electronics-company representative Phil Callihan)
12 Diplomatic Style of Andrew Young
12:10
3 Marcus Welby, M.D.
19 Viewpoint
12:15
8 News
12:30
31 Your World
12:35
31 Loving Free
12:40
9-19 News
1:00
4-10-20-25 News
1:10
9 FBI
1:35
2 News
7 Studio 7
1:50
2 Movie: “The Great Race” (1965)
7 News
2:10
9 New Soupy Sales
4:55
2 Bill Cosby